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  • Beauty Inspires Love in us

    3 11.11%
  • Beauty Inspires Lust in us

    7 25.93%
  • Beauty Inspires both Love and Lust

    12 44.44%
  • Neither because I am blind :-)

    3 11.11%
  • Neither because Beauty does not interest me

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    The Word is Serendipitous Lote-Tree's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bakiryu View Post
    it's supposed to be Eve, i got it from deviantART. I merely liked what it portrayed.
    Why not African Eve?
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    i couldn't find one, but's a good idea, let me try in another website. after all MANKIND DID ORIGINATE IN AFRICA.
    Shall these bones live?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bakiryu View Post
    i couldn't find one, but's a good idea, let me try in another website.
    You don't have to. I was just pointing out - that's all. I think we are either conciously or subconsciously are drawn towards beautiful things. There is nothing wrong with that.

    after all MANKIND DID ORIGINATE IN AFRICA.
    :-) This is what reserach points to...
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    I think the answer can be interpretted as both, based on ones definition of love. There are three different types of love different loves defined in Greek, but really only one in English. In Greek there is extreme love in which you would be willing to die for the person you love, its an extreme respect and kindredship, much like, in my opinion, what true love should be, a willingness to sacrafice oneself for the other. There is also brotherly type love, more of a friendship or respect, not where you are ready to die for the other, but you respect them as a chum. The third type ofcourse is sexual love...need I say more

    I think for this one the word can meen a great deal of things based on how it is used and how much weight the user places on the word.

    Like Obi-wan said "Everything is true, from a certain point of view"

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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile View Post
    If I see a woman at a bar who I consider beautiful the only one of the emotions in my head at that time is lust, I know nothing about her so how can I love her.
    Ehmmm..this happens to you before or after drinking scotch whisky? You know when you are not sober (which is often the case in a bar) you tend to find all women beautiful..so you must be careful

    I agree with you though. My first impulse was that beauty inspires admiration, but since this is not an option in the poll, i'll go with the lust option too .

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    Quote Originally Posted by manolia View Post
    Ehmmm..this happens to you before or after drinking scotch whisky? You know when you are not sober (which is often the case in a bar) you tend to find all women beautiful..so you must be careful

    I agree with you though. My first impulse was that beauty inspires admiration, but since this is not an option in the poll, i'll go with the lust option too .
    Ah yes, the issue of beer goggles is always a conundrum. Is she really beautiful or have I had too much to drink and she is a lot more Bo Diddly than Bo Derrick (to paraphrase a NOFX song). I get around this by applying a simple formula:

    If x-(y-2)>3 then it is ok to use my judgement. Where x is a determination of how beautiful I think the woman is on a scale of 1-10 (Yes, I know I'm a pig) and y is the number of drinks I have had.
    There once was a scotsman named Drew
    Who put too much wine in his stew
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    I choose number three which says "Beauty Inspires both Love and Lust". Because of so many reasons that am, probably, gonna say when I came back.
    The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile View Post
    Ah yes, the issue of beer goggles is always a conundrum. Is she really beautiful or have I had too much to drink and she is a lot more Bo Diddly than Bo Derrick (to paraphrase a NOFX song). I get around this by applying a simple formula:

    If x-(y-2)>3 then it is ok to use my judgement. Where x is a determination of how beautiful I think the woman is on a scale of 1-10 (Yes, I know I'm a pig) and y is the number of drinks I have had.

    and yes you can be a pig sometimes

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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile View Post
    Ah yes, the issue of beer goggles is always a conundrum. Is she really beautiful or have I had too much to drink and she is a lot more Bo Diddly than Bo Derrick (to paraphrase a NOFX song). I get around this by applying a simple formula:

    If x-(y-2)>3 then it is ok to use my judgement. Where x is a determination of how beautiful I think the woman is on a scale of 1-10 (Yes, I know I'm a pig) and y is the number of drinks I have had.
    Hey that's a great equation, but can you compute it after 4 or 5 drinks?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile View Post
    Ah yes, the issue of beer goggles is always a conundrum. Is she really beautiful or have I had too much to drink and she is a lot more Bo Diddly than Bo Derrick (to paraphrase a NOFX song). I get around this by applying a simple formula:

    If x-(y-2)>3 then it is ok to use my judgement. Where x is a determination of how beautiful I think the woman is on a scale of 1-10 (Yes, I know I'm a pig) and y is the number of drinks I have had.
    This is the best thing I've heard all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manolia View Post

    and yes you can be a pig sometimes
    Oink, oink

    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    Hey that's a great equation, but can you compute it after 4 or 5 drinks?
    See that is the greatness of the equation, once you become unable to compute it you are generally in such a state that any attempt at picking up will be unsuccessful
    There once was a scotsman named Drew
    Who put too much wine in his stew
    He felt a bit drunk
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bakiryu View Post
    it's supposed to be Eve, i got it from deviantART. I merely liked what it portrayed.
    It totally looked like Marilyin Manson to me...
    dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
    keep me alive and give me something to lose

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    Summary so far

    Total number of Voters: 16.

    Only 2 people voted "Beauty Inspires Love in us" - and I am one of them so I am not abnormal :-)

    Only 1 person voted Neither because Beauty does not interest me - I find that hard to believe.

    And 5 people voted Beauty Inspires Lust in us - this perhaps a uncomforting result.

    And 6 people voted Beauty Inspires both Love and Lust - this is perhaps average response...
    Last edited by Lote-Tree; 05-23-2007 at 05:03 PM.
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    And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
    And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lote-Tree View Post
    Summary so far

    Total number of Voters: 16.
    You forgot the "neither I'm blind" option. That garnered two votes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kathycf View Post
    You forgot the "neither I'm blind" option. That garnered two votes.
    Yes, Lote, don't forget Kathy and me.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

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